Spice Cake with Peanut Buttercream

Name: Spice Cake with Peanut Buttercream
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves: 8 to 10
Ingredients: eggs; low-fat buttermilk; pure vanilla extract; cake flour; bleached all-purpose flour; superfine sugar; unsweetened (alkalized) cocoa powder; baking powder; salt; cinnamon; cloves; unsalted butter

Preparation info

Serves:
8 to 10

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

Rose's Heavenly Cakes

By Rose Levy Beranbaum

Published 2009

About

The interplay of earthy peanut buttercream and velvety tender cake with a mildly spicy edge is as delightful as it is unusual. Make the cake a day ahead to give the spices a chance to evolve to their fullest.

Ingredients

Batter

	Volume	Ounce	Gram
2

Dessert
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the Oven

Twenty minutes or more before baking, set an oven rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C.

Mix the Liquid Ingredients

In a medium bowl, whisk the